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There's actually a statue of Hillary Clinton in GTA IV (2008), in commemoration of her many battles against the series.

[0] https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Statue_of_Happiness

Totally fair point, the first one I played was GTA III in the early 2000s, and I definitely remember some of these conversations. Similar to how DOOM and Mortal Kombat had a lot of controversy, but like you, I had assumed that this was mostly in the past.

Kids these days probably never heard of Jack Thompson's crusades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(activist)

"Today" being 10 years ago. Collective Shout's campaign was in 2015.